Position of Neutrality

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne highlights a powerful promise from the Big Book: the moment we are willing to lay aside our prejudice and express even the smallest willingness to believe in a power greater than ourselves, we begi...

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne emphasizes the importance of starting somewhere—anywhere—on our spiritual journey, and continuing to grow in our relationship with a power greater than ourselves. “Experience has taught us that the...

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne addresses some of the most challenging questions that often arise when contemplating the existence of a higher power: Why does God allow suffering? Why are there wars, like the one in Ukraine? Why...

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne explores a fundamental truth revealed in the Big Book: our dilemma was not a lack of willpower, but a lack of true power—a power greater than ourselves that could guide us to a new way of living. “...

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne explores the powerful distinction made in the Big Book: many of us came to believe in a power greater than ourselves only after confronting the hopelessness and futility of our lives as we had been...

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne highlights the stark warning from the Big Book: for those seriously struggling with alcoholism, there is no middle-of-the-road solution. The choice is clear: an alcoholic death or a happy, joyous,...

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne reflects on what we’ve learned about alcoholism from the Big Book—particularly its cunning, baffling, and powerful nature. But beyond these attributes, alcoholism is marked by an appalling lack of...

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne explores the idea that, without realizing it, we’ve been guided by a certain kind of faith throughout our lives. Even when we claimed not to believe in a higher power, or questioned what that power...

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne discusses the critical importance of honesty in the recovery process—starting with being truly honest with oneself. Reflecting on his own journey, Wayne shares how it took him 30 years to understan...

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne highlights a powerful message from the Big Book: while they can’t answer all our questions, they can help clear the ground and encourage us to approach our recovery with honesty and diligence. “We...

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne explores a core concept from the Big Book: that deep down in every man, woman, and child lies the fundamental idea of God. This idea is often obscured by life’s calamities, by pride, or by the wors...

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne delves into the human mind’s natural aversion to trauma and the tendency to avoid confronting painful memories. He explains how our minds instinctively want to abandon traumatic thoughts entirely,...

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne discusses how the practical individual of today often demands facts and results before accepting any theory. Yet, as the Big Book points out, even in the 20th century, people readily accept theorie...

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne reflects on a common experience for many in recovery: walking into a meeting, reading the steps on the wall, thinking you’ve done them, and then finding yourself back in the same destructive patter...

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne reflects on the profound transformation that can only be described as a miracle of healing. He shares his personal experience as someone who was consumed by addiction, using meth every single day n...

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne discusses the profound and revolutionary change that occurs when individuals come to believe in a power greater than themselves. The Big Book reveals that by adopting a certain attitude toward this...

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne delves into the all-inclusive nature of the spiritual path outlined in the Big Book. The process of recovery reveals the solution to those who earnestly seek it, reminding us that God does not make...

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne explores the critical question: “But where and how are we to find this power?” The Big Book is designed to guide us to this power, one that is spiritual as well as moral, and that can solve our dee...

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne addresses the struggle faced by atheists and agnostics who find the idea of a spiritual awakening impossible to grasp. Yet, for those who have identified as alcoholics or addicts of the hopeless va...

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne shares a powerful personal story of surrender—a moment when he called out to God in desperation and was met with unexpected grace. After being pulled over without insurance, registration, or a vali...

Join Wayne Giles as he leads us into Step 2 of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this session, Wayne opens with a powerful prayer, inviting everyone to come to the realization that there is a power greater than ourselves that can restore us to sanity. This acknowledgment of a higher power is at the heart...

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 2 AA session, Wayne highlights the transformative power of believing in something greater than ourselves. The Big Book shares the experiences of thousands who were once atheists or agnostics, yet found a miraculous ch...

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 1 AA session, Wayne reflects on the loss of trust that often accompanies addiction, both in oneself and from others. By the time many of us reach the depths of our addiction, we find it impossible to rely on anything...

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 1 AA session, Wayne examines the critical distinction the Big Book makes between consciousness and memory, particularly in the context of the first drink. The authors of the Big Book emphasize that alcoholics are with...

Join Wayne Giles as he reads and expands on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, offering deeper understanding and practical advice for those on their recovery journey. In this Step 1 AA session, Wayne delves into the real reason why men and women drink—because they like the effects produced by alcohol. However, it’s not just about getting drunk; the appeal often lies in the temporary relief from...